Candian Copyright Reform Likely to Follow U.S. Model

Earlier this month Canada suggested that they should adopt a new U.S. style amendment to improve their copyright law. People are arguing that this will improve the "protection of culture and intellectual rights in Canada," while others argue that it will harm some consumers if stricter laws are enforced. There are critics in Canada that are also arguing that the copyright laws that Canada have in place now do not protect certain peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa and Bittorrent from circumventing their copyrighted files to different users illegally. People are not sure if this will be passed because recently, in 2005, Canada tried passing a copyright bill which was rejected.

As the article advances it basically just gives many different opinions of many different critics whether this law will be affective or if it will be worth passing. In my opinion I feel that the law should be passed because the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials is a big problem and should be stopped. There are many record companies and many movie distributers that are being hurt because the copyright laws are not strict enough. Some people in the article argue that it isn't the case that the law in place now isn't harsh enough, but it is that it isn't enforced enough. If this is the case then Canada really has to do a better job enforcing the law because this is a serious issue.